- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Frontispiece
-
1 The Battle to Conserve Aquatic Species in Lands of Water Scarcity Continues -
2 The Protagonists -
3 Biodiversity, Biogeography, and Conservation of North American Desert Fishes -
4 Living with Aliens -
5 Current Conservation Status of Some Freshwater Species and Their Habitats in México -
6 Ghosts of Our Making -
7 Running on Empty -
8 Mining Hidden Waters -
9 Southwestern Fish and Aquatic Systems: The Climate Challenge -
10 Novel Drought Regimes Restructure Aquatic Invertebrate Communities in Arid-Land Streams -
11 The Exotic Dilemma -
12 Applying Endangered Species Act Protections to Desert Fishes -
13 The Value of Specimen Collections for Conserving Biodiversity -
14 Conservation Genetics of Desert Fishes in the Genomics Age -
15 Long-Term Monitoring of a Desert Fish Assemblage in Aravaipa Creek, Arizona -
16 Human Impacts on the Hydrology, Geomorphology, and Restoration Potential of Southwestern Rivers -
17 Conservation and Ecological Rehabilitation of North American Desert Spring Ecosystems -
18 Oases -
19 Recent Discoveries and Conservation of Catfishes, Genus Ictalurus, in México -
20 Ecology, Politics, and Conservation of Gila Trout -
21 Large-River Fish Conservation in the Colorado River Basin -
22 Assisting Recovery -
23 Restoration of Aquatic Habitats and Native Fishes in the Desert -
24 The Devils Hole Pupfish -
25 Politics, Imagination, Ideology, and the Realms of Our Possible Futures -
26 Searching for Common Ground between Life and Extinction - Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Index
Running on Empty
Running on Empty
Southwestern Water Supplies and Climate Change
- Chapter:
- (p.109) 7 Running on Empty
- Source:
- Standing between Life and Extinction
- Author(s):
Bradley H. Udall
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
The two major rivers of the Southwest United States and Mexico, the Colorado and the Rio Grande, were fundamentally and irretrievably altered during the 20th century. Massive dam construction in both basins provided new water supplies for agricultural and municipal growth throughout the region. As water needs increased and infrastructure grew to meet these needs, water management laws and agreements also increased in number and complexity. Water demand in both basins grew to equal supplies and now the Colorado River fails to reach the ocean, and the Rio Grande dries in places it historically did not. Natural ecosystems have suffered because of water diversions and both basins now contain endangered aquatic and riparian species. Water management is complex and difficult to modify to meet changing requirements. Climate change will continue to impact both rivers by reducing flows as air temperatures warm, further reducing the ability of these systems to support sustainable supplies for people and ecosystems.
Keywords: climate change, Colorado River, Rio Grande, water management, infrastructure, dams
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- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Frontispiece
-
1 The Battle to Conserve Aquatic Species in Lands of Water Scarcity Continues -
2 The Protagonists -
3 Biodiversity, Biogeography, and Conservation of North American Desert Fishes -
4 Living with Aliens -
5 Current Conservation Status of Some Freshwater Species and Their Habitats in México -
6 Ghosts of Our Making -
7 Running on Empty -
8 Mining Hidden Waters -
9 Southwestern Fish and Aquatic Systems: The Climate Challenge -
10 Novel Drought Regimes Restructure Aquatic Invertebrate Communities in Arid-Land Streams -
11 The Exotic Dilemma -
12 Applying Endangered Species Act Protections to Desert Fishes -
13 The Value of Specimen Collections for Conserving Biodiversity -
14 Conservation Genetics of Desert Fishes in the Genomics Age -
15 Long-Term Monitoring of a Desert Fish Assemblage in Aravaipa Creek, Arizona -
16 Human Impacts on the Hydrology, Geomorphology, and Restoration Potential of Southwestern Rivers -
17 Conservation and Ecological Rehabilitation of North American Desert Spring Ecosystems -
18 Oases -
19 Recent Discoveries and Conservation of Catfishes, Genus Ictalurus, in México -
20 Ecology, Politics, and Conservation of Gila Trout -
21 Large-River Fish Conservation in the Colorado River Basin -
22 Assisting Recovery -
23 Restoration of Aquatic Habitats and Native Fishes in the Desert -
24 The Devils Hole Pupfish -
25 Politics, Imagination, Ideology, and the Realms of Our Possible Futures -
26 Searching for Common Ground between Life and Extinction - Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Index
